| --- |
| license: other |
| language: |
| - mos |
| - dyu |
| - und |
| - ffm |
| - fue |
| - fuh |
| - fuf |
| - fuc |
| - fui |
| - fuq |
| - fuv |
| - ful |
| task_categories: |
| - automatic-speech-recognition |
| pretty_name: Faso Speech Plus |
| tags: |
| - audio |
| - speech |
| - asr |
| - burkina-faso |
| - moore |
| - jula |
| - fulfulde |
| configs: |
| - config_name: moore |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: moore/train.parquet |
| - split: validation |
| path: moore/validation.parquet |
| - config_name: bambara_jula |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: bambara_jula/train.parquet |
| - split: validation |
| path: bambara_jula/validation.parquet |
| - config_name: fula |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: fula/train.parquet |
| - split: validation |
| path: fula/validation.parquet |
| --- |
| |
| # Faso Speech Plus |
|
|
| Faso Speech Plus extends [`madoss/faso-speech`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/madoss/faso-speech) |
| by concatenating it with other already-published ASR datasets covering the |
| same target languages (Mooré, Jula, Fulfuldé), plus related language |
| varieties grouped by macrolanguage. |
|
|
| Built with `scripts/build_faso_speech_plus.py`. See that script's `MANIFEST` |
| for the authoritative, per-source list of dataset ids, column mappings, |
| target config, license, and attribution. |
|
|
| ## Configs and dialect handling |
|
|
| | Config | Language group | Row-level `language` values | |
| | --- | --- | --- | |
| | `moore` | Mooré | `mos` (Mooré) | |
| | `bambara_jula` | Bambara and Jula | `dyu` (Jula/Dioula), `und` when the merged source does not identify the variety | |
| | `fula` | Fula | `ffm`, `fuc`, `fue`, `fuf`, `fuh`, `fui`, `fuq`, `fuv`, or `ful` when the precise variety is unknown | |
|
|
| Use the row-level `language` field to select a precise variety. Related |
| languages and varieties within a config should not be assumed interchangeable. |
|
|
| ## Composition |
|
|
| | Config | Rows | Duration | Sources | |
| | --- | ---: | ---: | --- | |
| | `moore` | 37,977 | 98.46 hours | Faso Speech, AfriSpeech, Moore Bible | |
| | `bambara_jula` | 93,976 | 123.33 hours | Faso Speech, AfriSpeech, Koumankan4Dyula, Dyula Speech Bible, merged Bambara-Dioula | |
| | `fula` | 49,693 | 231.22 hours | Faso Speech, Omnilingual ASR, Fula-pular, WaxalNLP, FLEURS | |
|
|
| Total: **181,646 rows** and **453.01 hours**. |
|
|
| Before inclusion, `madoss/merged-bambara-dioula-dataset` contained 85,040 rows |
| but only 37,848 unique transcripts. Exact comparison found 9,495 transcripts |
| already present in the prior `bambara_jula` release. After global transcript |
| deduplication, it contributes 28,353 rows. |
|
|
| `Minervus00/dyula-speech-bible` contains 52,163 source rows and 50,214 |
| unique transcripts. Exact transcript comparison found 1,949 internal duplicate |
| rows and 3 overlaps with the previous `bambara_jula` release. After global |
| deduplication, it contributes 50,211 rows. The source is gated and does not |
| declare a license, so its rows are recorded with license `unknown`. |
|
|
| ## Data splits |
|
|
| Published validation splits are preserved for every source that provides one. |
| Configured upstream `dev` and `test` splits are combined into validation, never |
| training. For a source without evaluation data, the builder deterministically |
| holds out `--eval-size` of that source's training rows using `--seed`. Final |
| deduplication gives validation rows priority. It uses transcript-only matching |
| for `bambara_jula` because the merged source lacks per-row language labels, and |
| `(language, text)` matching for the other configs. |
| The completed build also verifies that no deduplication key remains in both |
| train and validation; the published `bambara_jula` files have zero transcript |
| overlap between those splits. |
|
|
| ## Data Fields |
|
|
| Same compact schema as `faso-speech`, plus per-row provenance: |
|
|
| | Column | Description | |
| | --- | --- | |
| | `audio` | Embedded `Audio(decode=False)` value with `bytes` and `path` | |
| | `text` | Transcript | |
| | `language` | Precise ISO 639-3 code, a macrolanguage code, or `und` when the source does not identify Bambara versus Jula | |
| | `duration` | Chunk duration in seconds | |
| | `id` | Source-prefixed native identifier, or a generated 16-character hash | |
| | `content_type` | Source content type, or `external` when the source doesn't provide one | |
| | `source` | Manifest entry id this row came from (see `MANIFEST` in the build script) | |
| | `license` | License string recorded for that source in the manifest | |
| | `attribution` | Attribution string recorded for that source in the manifest | |
|
|
| ## Licensing And Attribution |
|
|
| Source licenses differ per entry in the manifest — several are still |
| `unknown` and must be confirmed from the original source before this dataset |
| is published or used commercially. This is the reason `faso-speech-plus` is |
| a separate repo from `faso-speech`: it aggregates third-party data with |
| mixed, not-yet-fully-verified licensing, unlike the curated |
| `mooreburkina.com`-sourced `faso-speech` corpus. |
|
|
| Consult the row-level `license`, `source`, and `attribution` fields before use. |
| Some included sources do not declare a license and are recorded as `unknown`; |
| users are responsible for verifying that their intended use is permitted. |
|
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